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No. 417,830. Patented Dec. 24, 1889.,

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MACHINE FOR CUTTING, GREA'SING, AND PRINTING PAPER BOX BLANIIS.

No. 417,830. Patented Dec. 24, 1889.

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UNITED STATES l PATENTA OFFICE.

MOSES MERGONINSKY, OF NEW( YORK, N. Y., ASSIGNOR TO GUSTAV A. BISLER, OF PHILADELPHIA, PENNSYLVANIA.

MACHINE FOR CUTTING, CREASING, AND PRINTING PAPER-BOX BLANKS.

SPECIFICATION forming part of Letters Patent No. 417,830, dated December 24, 1889-. Application filed October 6, l1387. Serial No. 251,624. (No model.)

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Be it known that I, Mosns MnRGoNINsKY, a subject of the King of Prussia, residing at New York, in the county and State of New York, have invented new and useful Improvements in the Manufacture of Paper Boxes, of which the following is a specification.

My invention relates to improvements in the manufacture of paper boxes; and it consists in combining with the rolls for creasing and cutting the blank, printing-rolls Which are arranged to print borders upon the blank, corresponding in position to the edges and corners of the box and its cover, such borders being an imitation of the binding and fastening strips usually applied to paper boxes, all of which is more fully pointed out in the following specification and claims, and illus- Vtrated in the accompanying drawings, in which- Figure l represents a vertical section in the plane o: m, Fig. 2, of a machine embodying' my' invention. Fig. 2 is a plan view of the same. Fig. 3 is an elevation of the printingroll and creasing-roll drawn to a larger scale than the preceding figures. Fig. 4 is a vertical section in the plane y y, Fig. 3. Fig. 5 is a vertical section in the plane ,c a, Fig. et, drawn on a larger scale than said figure. Fig. G is aface view of the finished box-blank, drawn to the same scale as Figs, 1 and 2. Fig. 7 is a perspective View of a finished box. Fig 8 is a face view of the cover-blank.

Similarletters indicate corresponding parts.

In the drawings, referring at present to Figs. l and 2, the letter A designates a frame suitably constructed to support the operating part-s of the machine. At one end of the same is a feed-table B, and at the opposite end a receiving-table C, as usual.

The machine here illustrated is constructed to crease and print both the box-blank R and the cover-blank R.

D is a printing-roll having suitable bearings in the sides of the frame A. It is provided with separated printing-surfaces, which are intended to print on the box and cover blanks suitable borders in imitation of the usual binding and fastening strips. As here illustrated, these separated printing-surfaces can be formed by a number of disks d d and d d', arranged on a shaft, Figs. 3, 4, and 5 especially, which have their faces covered with rubber or other material which will receive ink and distribute it to the blank. The printing-disks d d are intended 'to print upon the box-blank R the corner borders marked along the lines l l and 2 2, in Fig. 6, and the disks CZ. CZ print the edge borders marked along lines 3 3 and 4 4. Similar printingdisks e c and e in combination with the disk CZ perform the same function for the coverblank Rf, Fig. S.` Ink is applied to the disks d d, d CZ, c e, and e by an oscillatory roll E, Figs. 1 and 2, that can be thrown into or out of contact with said disks and with an inksupply roll E', all as usual in printing-presses.

Beneath the printing-roll D is located a creasing-roll F, having thereoncreasing-disks f f, Figs. 3, 4:, and 5, especially arranged to czorrespond with the inking-disks d d and d c peripheral knives, which rotate in contact with the printing-disks d CZ and form creases in the blank R along the lines l l-thatis, in the center of the edge borders. The elastic or yielding face of the printing-disks allow the knives to press the paper therein, Fig. 5. Similar creasing-disks f2 f2 rotate in contact with the printing-'rolls c e for creasing the cover-blank R. Beneath the printing-disksV d CZ and c are smooth disks f f3, which only serve to form a support for the blank and to feed the same, and are not provided with creasing-knives. It will be observed that the faces of the creasing-disks or the material on each side of the knives serve as asupport for the blank beneath the printing-disks and to feed the same. As the blank is fed forward it comes under the grip of the cutter-rolls G and G', Figs. l and 2. These rolls G G carry cutter-disks g and g,which are arranged to cut the blank to the proper width and sever the The disks ff are provided with central covers and box-blanks, such disks being arranged, respectively, in line with the disks c and d.

A rotary motion can be imparted to the various rolls by any suitable means, such, for instance, as shown in the drawings, Figs. l and 2. A driving-shaft II has keyed thereon a gear 7L, Fig. l, which meshes into a gear c', mounted on a stud secured in the frame A,

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. which gear in turn engages a gear j, keyed to the lower cutter-roll G. This latter gear meshes into a gear 7c, Fig. 2, on the upper cutter-roll G. The gear h on the shaft H also engages with a gear Z on the creasing-roll F. A chain-pulley m, Fig. 2, on the upper cuttershaft is connected by a chain a with a pulley 0 on the ink-supply roll E.

The oscillating ink-roll E is rotated by frictional contact with the ink-supply roll E. The printing-roll D is free to rotate and is rotat-ed by contact with the creasing-roll F. The box or cover blank is first fed through the machine and printed along the lines 1`1 and 3 3, creased on the lines 1 l,'and cut on lines 3 3, as shown in Figs. 6 and 8. The blank is then turned through an angle of ninety degrees and vput through again, Where it is printed along the lines 2 2 4 4, creased on'the lines 2 2, and cut on lines t 4.-. The material relnainin g in the corners of the blank isl removed by any suitable corner-cutter, and the blank is then folded by hand or otherwise to form a box.

It Will be observed that all the disks for printing, cutting, and creasing are laterally adjustable on their shafts, so that they can beset for any particular size of box. lf the machine were not to be adjustable, solid rolls could be used in place of disks. In place of creasing-rolls a scoring-roll could be used.

By the use of my improved machine boxes and their covers can be rapidly and cheaply produced, and the iinishedv box presents a neat appearance.

That l claim as new, and desire to secure by'Letters Patent, is-

In a pap'er-box-blank machine, the combination, with a printing-roll containing a number of separated surfaces for printing borders on the box, of a creasing-roll for creasing the blank, substantially as shown and described.

2. ln ya paper-boX-blank machine, the combination, with a printing-roll containing a number of separated surfaces for printing borders on the box, of creasing-disks arranged to crease the blank centrally With certain of the borders, substantially as shown and described.

3. In a paper-boX-blank machine, the combination, With a printing-roll containing a number of separated disks provided With a facing of a yielding material, ot' disks provided With creasing-knives in contact With the said printing-disks, substantially as shown and described.

4'. The combination, with the printing-roll containing a number of separated surfaces for printing borders, of creasing-disks arranged in line with said disks for creasing the blank, and cutter-rolls, substantiallyv as shown and described.

5. The combination, with the laterally-adjustable printing-disks d d d', of laterallyadjustable creasing-disks f f, arrangedi'in a line with the printing-disks, substantially yas shown and described.

6. In a paper-box-blank machine, the combination of the ink-supply roll, an oscillating distributing-roll, the printing-roll having laterally adjustable printing f disks, Vand the creasing .roll having laterally adjustable creasing-disks, all arranged and adapted to operate substantially in the manner and for the purpose described.

7. In a paperboxblank machine, the combination of the printing-disks, the creasingdisks, and the cutting-disks, all laterally'adjustablc, substantially in the manner and for the purpose described.

In testimony whereof I have hereunto set my hand and seal in the presence of two sub scribing Witnesses.

MOSES MERGONINSKY.

Witnesses: l

A.-FABER DU FAUR, Jr., E. F. KASTENHUBER. 

